Acclaim has switched to Credly, added confusion

[dfrecore]

The whole "badge" thing is stupid and annoying, frankly. Do we have to gamify EVERYTHING now? Just give me a regular transcript without this cutesy nonsense. As an adult, I really don't need everything in life to resemble a video game.

Sadly in my industry it seems like the more certs and letters that you have after your name the better you are off. We just had a position filled by our secretary and I knew she was not qualified for the job. 
She is about to get a degree from WGU in healthcare management and has some obscure certs. Our manager mentioned all of that when he promoted her. I would have preferred someone that had hands on experience and was not afraid to actually do the work. Her communications skills are severely lacking which speaks ill of WGU. Some of my coworkers are questioning WGU and online education because of her. Her idea of "leadership" skills is telling everyone to do her job in an annoying manner. 
I really hope that more people apply what they learn in the work force and not earn a degree just to have cute little badges and letters after their names.

I blame whoever thinks she's a good employee to promote, rather than issues with WGU.